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Quite an interesting month so far with a couple of fairly minor events:
An elevated solar wind speed on the 3rd-4th April resulted in some increased auroral activity as did a minor (G1) geomagnetic storm on the 7th-8th.

The visually dramatic AR2529 has been pretty quiet so far with just a few C1 flares (see below) and little significant activity is predicted in the near future

Here is what my magnetometer has picked up:

And a fairly poor animation of one of the C1 flares in AR2529 from 10th April: